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Message: <blockquote data-quote="steve_p6" data-source="post: 1048385" data-attributes="member: 230560"><p>Its part of the story.  Firstly general advice is to bolus 50% for protein and 10% for fat.  Second if meal is high in fat/protein you need to work out how long it will take to raise the BG.  For that you need to look at how many multiples of 100 cals are due to fat/protein (ie subtract your carb cals from total cals @4 cals per g of carb).  The number of FPUs tells you whether to bolus over 1,2,3,4 etc hours.  Check here for the details <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2901033/" target="_blank">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2901033/</a></p></blockquote><p></p>

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